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Drawing on methodologies pertaining to Digital Humanities, World
Literature, and Comparative Literature, the volume aims to
challenge some of the enduring cliches regarding the literary
production of Romanian communism. The first section focuses on
socialist realism, socialist modernism, representations of the
rural, and rural modernity. The second section deals with literary
cosmopolitanism, literary dissidence, countercultural literary
production, minority literatures in Romania, and the relationship
between genre fiction and state politics. The third section looks
at the communist literary production from a transnational
perspective, exploring the Romanian polysystem during the
ideological thaw, as well as forms of literary dissidence across
the Soviet bloc.
Shortlisted for the AATSEEL 2022 Award for Best Edited Multi-Author
Scholarly Volume (AATSEEL is The American Association of Teachers
of Slavic and East European Languages) Theory in the "Post" Era
brings together the work and perspectives of a group of Romanian
theorists who discuss the morphings of contemporary theory in what
the editors call the "post" era. Since the Cold War's end and
especially in the third millennium, theorists have been exploring
the aftermath - and sometimes just the "after" - of whole
paradigms, the crisis or "passing" of anthropocentrism, the
twilight of an entire ontological and cultural "condition," as well
as the corresponding rise of an antagonist model, of an "anti,"
"meta," or "neo" alternative, with examples ranging from
"posthumanism" and "post-postmodernism" to "post-aesthetics,"
"postanalog" interpretation or "digicriticism," "post-presentism,"
"post-memory," "post-" or "neo-critique," and so forth. It is no
coincidence, the contributors to this volume argue, that this
"post" moment is also a time when theory is practiced as a world
genre. If theory has always been a "worlded" enterprise, a
quintessentially communal, cross-cultural and international
project, this is truer at present than ever. Perhaps more than
other humanist constituencies, today's theorists work and belong in
a theory commons that is transnational if still uneven
economically, politically, and otherwise. Theory in the "Post" Era
reports the results of Romanian theory experiments that join
efforts made in other places to foster a theory for the "post" age.
Approaching Romanian literature as world literature, this book is a
critical-theoretical manifesto that places its object at the
crossroads of empires, regions, and influences and draws
conclusions whose relevance extends beyond the Romanian, Romance,
and East European cultural systems. This "intersectional"
revisiting of Romanian literature is organized into three parts.
Opening with a fresh look at the literary ideology of Romania's
"national poet," Mihai Eminescu, part I dwells primarily on
literary-cultural history as process and discipline. Here, the
focus is on cross-cultural mimesis, the role of strategic imitation
in the production of a distinct literature in modern Romania, and
the shortcomings marking traditional literary historiography's
handling of these issues. Part II examines the ethno-linguistic and
territorial complexity of Romanian literatures or "Romanian
literature in the plural." Part III takes up the trans-systemic
rise of Romanian, Jewish Romanian, and Romanian-European
avant-garde and modernism, Socialist Realism, exile and emigre
literature, and translation.
Approaching Romanian literature as world literature, this book is a
critical-theoretical manifesto that places its object at the
crossroads of empires, regions, and influences and draws
conclusions whose relevance extends beyond the Romanian, Romance,
and East European cultural systems. This "intersectional"
revisiting of Romanian literature is organized into three parts.
Opening with a fresh look at the literary ideology of Romania's
"national poet," Mihai Eminescu, part I dwells primarily on
literary-cultural history as process and discipline. Here, the
focus is on cross-cultural mimesis, the role of strategic imitation
in the production of a distinct literature in modern Romania, and
the shortcomings marking traditional literary historiography's
handling of these issues. Part II examines the ethno-linguistic and
territorial complexity of Romanian literatures or "Romanian
literature in the plural." Part III takes up the trans-systemic
rise of Romanian, Jewish Romanian, and Romanian-European
avant-garde and modernism, Socialist Realism, exile and emigre
literature, and translation.
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